Hello it's Adrian here. On the morning of the 28th we headed back to the airport to pick up a hire car. It was a compact Chevrolet Aveo - not the most intimidating vehicle on the roads. The streets of LA were full of heavy pickups, vans, Harleys and sports cars - all as loud, fast, and aggressive as possible.
Our GPS took some time to charge and locate itself, and in the meantime Renae had navigated me through the busiest Santa Monica traffic toward Highway One northbound. A few manic freeways kept my eyes peeled! We stopped in a pretty town called Santa Barbara for lunch, and drove on to San Simeon motel for the night.
On the 29th we continued onto the Big Sur coast, stopping many times for some amazing sights including gray whales, elephant seals, squirrels and a jaw-droppingly amazing coastline (we'll have to use photos to describe this).
The traffic got serious as we headed on to San Francisco (12 lanes merging into 8, a 15 lane toll gate), and we made into the CBD to find our accommodation and to return the car.
Renae will tell you about beautiful San Francisco in her next post, coming soon! Bye for now!
12 lanes, Yikes! Just amazing. Enjoy yourself,
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Wowzers...I would not cope with that traffic...saw the coast pic you put on FB...amazing! Are you used to driving the wrong way around yet?
ReplyDeleteMostly okay, they have lots of those four way intersections where noone has priority, thankfully I have managed to avoid these so far. That road was very cool!
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